Tanzania has about 1.5 million French speakers and shares its land borders with three Francophone countries, not to mention nearby Indian Ocean countries of Madagascar, Mauritius, Seychelles and The Union of the Comoros.

French is also the only foreign language other than English to be offered in the Tanzanian school curriculum.

Over 50 percent of the world’s French speakers are Africans.

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